On what makes effective street art: “Simplicity. How quick can you read the message—it’s just like a good logo, especially if you’re on a commute and get the repeated viewings. You can have details as a lot of backstory, but the overall composition has to have a connection. The Life Is Beautiful street art is a simple read, because you can look at it as a whole. If you walk up to it in person then you see the details, and it becomes a different kind of piece. Graffiti is not a simple read. It has so much detail and so much chaos, and it’s supposed to have chaos. It’s supposed to throw your sense off a little bit. It’s supposed to be an invasion.”

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What Las Vegas is missing in terms of street art: “Ethnic murals. You have a large Hawaiian population here; there should be a mural about them somewhere. You have North Las Vegas with a big Latino community. There’s probably a great place for a mural in Chinatown. You could have a great Mormon mural. You could have a mural about mining. You could come out with a really beautiful curated mural program. I would even be happy with a cool Rat Pack mural that’s not on the side of a souvenir stand. How could they not have done a Howard Hughes mural in Summerlin? Who’s the first librarian in town? That’s worth a mural.”